Name: Chinese Rabbit Recipe: Sichuan Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 500 g rabbit meat; 50 g green pepper; 10 g chili peppers; 50 g ginger (tender); 100 g bamboo shoots (green, fresh will be bettter.); 6 g salt; 10 g light soy sauce; 15 g Pixian boad bean paste with red chili oil; 8 g cooking wine; 10 g chili oil; 10 g spicy sauce; 15 g ginger (minced); 10 g garlic (minced); 3 g white pepper powder; 15 g chili oil; 10 g Sichuan peppercorns oil; 5 g parsley; 1 egg white; 20 ml water starch

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Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit

Sichuan Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit is an innovative and wonderful Chinese rabbit recipe at the beginning of this century. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more popular among a wide range of food lovers. The fresh pot rabbit is tender and delicious, stimulates the addiction, and has a hearty feeling of eating.

However, the food of Zigong Sichuan cuisine is too spicy for most people around the world. Even the native Sichuanese can’t accept many of them. We have purposely adjusted the amount of peppercorns so that you can enjoy the deliciousness without being too spicy. If you are a lover of spicy food, please double the number of peppers yourself to make a complete and authentic Zigong fresh pot rabbit. But if you can’t eat spicy food, the best choice is just add one or two pepper when you cook this sichuan rabbit.

If you like to eat spicy food, you can also try our spicy crawfish recipe. Althought it is not a Sichuan food, it is the most popular spicy food when it is time to eat crawfish. Hope you like it.

Can We Eat Rabbits?

Yes, rabbits are edible as food. In some regions, rabbit meat is a relatively common ingredient and is used to prepare a variety of delicious dishes. With its high protein content and low-fat content, rabbit meat is rich in nutritional value and helps to enhance physical strength and immunity.

However, it should be noted that hygiene and food safety issues need to be taken into consideration when consuming rabbit meat, especially for wild rabbits, which may carry diseases or parasites and need to be cooked and disinfected adequately to avoid food poisoning. It is recommended to handle and cook under the guidance of professionals.

The cooked rabbit meat

How do you prepare fresh rabbit?

Handling fresh rabbit meat requires attention to the following points:

1. Hair Removal: If the rabbit still has hair, you need to remove the hair first. You can roast it by fire, smoke it or scrape the hair off with a hair scraper.

2. Gutting: After gutting the rabbit, the internal organs need to be removed. You can gently cut the abdomen with a knife and then remove the internal organs, including the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc. It is important to note that gutting requires some skill and experience, so if you are inexperienced, it is best not to try it. Otherwise, it may cause damage to the meat quality of the rabbit, affecting the taste and safety of consumption. It is recommended to handle the process under the guidance of professionals. Or just buy cleanly processed rabbit meat from the market.

3. Blood removal: After cutting the rabbit meat into cubes or slices, the blood needs to be completely removed from the meat.

4. After cleaning, cut the rabbit meat into appropriate sizes for cooking.

Do you need to soak rabbit before cooking?

Yes. Soaking rabbit meat before cooking can help remove blood and odor from the meat, making it more tender and flavorful. Usually, rabbit meat is cut into cubes or slices and then soaked in water or brine for several hours or overnight. When soaking rabbit meat, you can add some seasonings such as wine, sliced ginger, green onion, and pepper to enhance the flavor and remove the odor. After soaking, rinse the rabbit meat with water and it is ready for cooking.

The raw rabbit meat

How long does it take to cook rabbit meat?

The cooking time of rabbit meat depends on the size of the meat and how it is cooked. Generally, the rabbit needs to be fully cooked before serving, if cut into small pieces and stewed in a pot with boiling water or baked in the oven, it takes 20-30 minutes. The cooked rabbit meat usually appears white or off-white, rabbit meat is fluffy and easy to chew, while raw rabbit meat is hard and cannot be chewed.

How to Make Chinese Sichuan Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit

Step 1

De-bone the rabbit meat and cut it into 1.5 cubes, and the blood was rinsed with running water. Add 3g of refined salt, some soy sauce, egg white, and starch, and mix them well.

The boned rabbit meat

Step 2

Shred the ginger, cut the fresh green spring bamboo shoots into 2-inch long thick strips, and cut the green strip pepper and red millet pepper into circles.If you are very capable of eating super spicy then the pepper you can prepare to double the amount of this.

Ginger shredded ginger,

Step 3

Add some oil to the pot. Heat the oil. When the oil temperature reaches 60%, pour the rabbit meat into the pot. Be careful when pouring in the rabbit meat to prevent the oil from splashing out.

When the oil temperature is 60% hot

Step 4

When the rabbit meat turns white, fish it out of the pot and drain the oil from it.

Step 5

Leave a little oil in the pan, stir-fry the red oil with bean paste and spicy sauce, add minced ginger and garlic and stir fry for fragrance, and then add fresh broth, pepper, and cooking wine. Pour the rabbit meat and green bamboo shoots into the pot and simmer over low heat for 2 minutes.

Leave a little oil in the pan,

Step 6

Add the shredded ginger and cook for about another 1 minute. Add the pepper rings and millet pepper.

Add the shredded ginger

Step 7

Stir with water starch, add red oil and pepper oil, dish it up, and sprinkle some parsley on the top. The Zigong fresh pot rabbit is done now.

Stir with water starch,

That’s our Chinese Rabbit Recipe today. In fact, there are many Chinese rabbit dishes. We will share more with you in the future.

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